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i .f i 3 Netsertheleis, • Mr., Mackenzie is authorised to announce, that there tS ill'be no difficulty in under standing the principle ot; the British Projet in re , Bard to "the Russian and Dailish prisoners reSpeelive 7 ly, and.that the British Government is ready tarn ter into an arranglrneut with these two powers, upon the bases of the 'Plojet which has been offered in their name. (Signed) , C. A. MACKENZIE. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE' PgOPOSED. In the state in which the Spanish Government is, the terms of this Convention will be communicated; but, TS its acceding to the tenn, cannot be notified in less than three months frc,. thtit dare of the Sig. nature,' but are French subjects; who way be pri soners_ in' Great Briiaip or ,her possessions after the futchange of iris tners tiespedively, as expressed in the five first paragraphs of !he fourth Article, shalt: be libermed successivdy, without delay; by suCces cve Com,yacces of one thottand Men each, on,pro ver receipts, in the form which shat be agreed _upon, and upon the, po.itive euglgement (ratified by the French Government). that they span not • serve either upon sea or land against Great- Brfiain, or any.),t her allies, in-any country of the World, before they be regularly exchanged for similar 136- ti fi h viisoners, who 13-/ the chance of war may fall into the hands of the French, and who, shall conse- 4 , lently he 113 .rated from lime co time, until the su r pl us o f Fre t ich prisoners form,:rly menti •neti shall lat.! discharged. Asi filar exchange will take plaos according to the 5t h and 6th paragraphs of they fourth articlEl Al: the 'Officers not exchanged, and those - who nifty b:2. ye - muted . to -return-to. France, as is expressed. abov.V, friti . sealso be consi,iered as if they wepe upon their i carole of honour, and shall be bound to trans- mit a regular report of the jilace.Of welr residence. to the British 'Agent in France, as was the prattrce lyt war. IX. Letter frog. Mr. M ickenzie to M. Du inoustier. " Morlaiir, Aug. 25, s 8 Site—Havinc,""walied- with anstety for some com munication upon the decision of the Fiend) . Goitern merit, whether aec";t.int:e or reittsal, relative to the propakition -w bleb I had the honour of presenting you, on the morning of the 2d instant, which has hithertcr detained the messenger and the vvs:el,.l orvsoit myself in your, house - at the expiratron of fifteen days, and to declare to yoo verbally, " that I received instrdaions to wait with patience. during a length of time for . an answer to the propositions which, have- been'made,- and th it in case they,ore trot agreed to by the French Government, I shall return to. Engl:ma." - I am 'at present desired to in form you, that the • Goterument feels itself repugnin.ly forced to 'conclude; that the disposition of the French Government is of a nature %hid' renders a prolongation of the neg-ciation'ils: less; and I am ordered. to beg you will have the goodneSs to demand my passports-for my immediate return to England, &c. In No, X. (Aug. 3), M. annoltstier resumes, end repeats; Ist. That the French- Government offers-a gene ral exchange, man for titan, and rank tor rank, con sidering Spaniards,: Portuguese, 'English, French, Italians, &c, upon an equality. This i, most just And reasonable. 2dly. France also consents, that all the French prisoner.: should be sent .10 France, and all the Eng.ish .to-England; -bouas 'the number of French prisoners -exceeds that.; of the English, they shall be gent to France ,oti their vittile, sunjeCt to the conditions ut the additional article of the 34 of 3dly, Lastly, France at once consents that all Frclich prisoners in England shoxild be liberated, but she twier can consent to liberate only a part, and abindon the majority in England, wiihout guaran tee or boor. No Xi. , Another projea of a Convention for the Exchange of Prisoners, presented by M. Du arinsfier, with the preceding Note„dated the auth at Alazust. . , ;,1 oi la .1.; winch Ai. iitirmoustier titivaaces is ronedus. r t. ., It any•convdnient o7l)(frunity 'bfft,ted' to enter int o those de ails, tim Undersigned declares that the British Gi,vernment be able clearly to prove the information on which the French Gosiern mem ifs opinion on this subje6t, .is alto getiher without foundation. He is sorry to bc otiwe,d to observe, that,' all comparison which cgutd be made between the situation and treat ment of prisoners in Great Britain and in France catitn.t turn out but in. favour t,f the former. . The British Government has charged Mr. Mac kenzie to declare, that the number of Hanoveriatis having been fixed . .atter the'most attentive researches and conside!ation which could. be given to the sub jea, he cantrot depart from his proposition. With regard toDenmirk O - r to Russia, Mr. Mac krnzie cahnotconceal his surprize that'M. anul-Is ttbr could maintain that there existed, wiih respect to IheM; a 'material 'omission in the British Projet, of which the first, the second, and the sixth comprehend the Allies of buth parties. It Ruissia an - 1 Denmark are Allies of France, they will find themselves comprehended in these ar ticles. If they are not so, what. right has Great Britain or France to mix their interests in this. Conventino. No. XIJ. Note,of Mr. Mackenzie. The Underiignel Commissary f.t the exchange of pri.onyrs of war, I: . atli transmitted tohiS G.6vern ment 'the Note of M. Dumoustier of the 30th of Au 4 ,ust,,tb 6 etiter with the project, there reterred to; and is charged, in answer to thafcommunication, to inforin M. Dumou.:tit- , f,. - hat, his las , project is in mady respects inadnit:) , 7 lole; but.- it amears by his -Note That lie raV•es no uoje - ction as to .he basis o f the 13tnish.iprod je, and that the ditfieuitle regard merely two- points of naMtly, in the first that'which regards the - . additional article re gulating the desCription of. the surplus of French., lem.ioncs ectnaming in En land, nit the supposition t i to_occe'de to the convention ; and LONDON: Primed .by RICJIAL at the SuN.OvFi stc6;noly, that c:r rA, , etits ttiv nurnh:i of Frefich prisoners to be linefeed on account a the Hanove 'rian army of C nnif I ,Vaimcvien. The British_ Govetnnient has considered these ,two points with the same disposition which it bath ever bestoVved in &big aw:y the difficulties, i,fid I hath mutt inuted to the final sticeess of the tkgo- Ciation by every reasonable concession ; and finding that, though adheribg faithfully to flee principles which it bath before Manifested, nod which it still 'maintains, changes might introduced in the de tails nich e Convention, of a nature to give sathfac lion to the wishes -ol the French Go , r-rtrient On that subject, he is freely disposed to Wier them, iu expthation that these alteritions in the terns of his project, being the last ‘Alrich can be male on his part, ‘t.ill be found also the most acceptable, - and that they - %% ill enable the trench Government to furnish its w,-istance heartl'y, and candidly, to brine; this prolonged diseus,ion to no happy ter mination. , • As, on the first paint, the obj“ct ions of M. Du moustier had a rereience to the setting at liberty the s.irplu s French priSoners in England, and to th e determination of an exchange beiwren France and Spain; and as the point upon which he insi•ts . the hbetation, without delay, of all the pri soners in England, exchange for those Of Great Britain and her allies now in France; the British Go vernment hat h consented to make such a modifica tion in its projea as may be able to fulfil that (inject which M. - Outnoustier bath considered of such great importance. Instead, therefore, of sendincr (according to the stipulations of the original British proposal) the ex change of the surplus of French prisoners remaining in England, for the suiplus of Spanish prisoners re maining-in France, even to the full completion of exchange, man fbr man, - ard rank for rank, be tween France and Spain, Mr. Mackenzie is audio iised to consentlhat the exchange of the surplus of French prisoners who possibly might remain in England at the conclusion of the cartel between Fiance and England, should take place immediately and without Waiting for the conclusion of the ex change or 11131 1 for man; and rank for rank, be tween Eiance and 'Spain,. or,. in other Words, the British i3oveitiment consents to anticipate the vx eliaNe .of the surplus., and thus lo accelerate,_by - ,this concession On their part; the liberation of so many' French and Spanish captives. The 'Undersigned is charged to declare in addi tion, that by a communication which bath been m )(le by the Spanish Govertune.t, through its Minister residing in London, the British Government is fully authorised to accept, without' [Horn delay, the exchanged Spanish prisoners in return for French prisoners, in the proportion above mentioned ; and that `the Spanish Government bath equally made known its disposition to accede to a convention for a general exchange, agreeable.to the/terms which for this end ma y b e agree d on, under the mediatiOn of Great Britain • and Mr. Mackenzie cannot help. obserVing that this circumstance re!,dors the en tile discussion on the additional article useless and superfitious. As the second objection raised by M. 'numous tier, relative to the number of prisoners tobeg ih iv o e s n c up in regard t o th e Ha nover i an army o f W a l m od en , ree!,ires that in r ec k on i ng o f t h at number who might have entered into, the service of Great - should be taken into consideration. The British Goverwrient is di,posed, in like mantle!, to accede to this proposition; but the'extensioo which M. Duntonstier, bath given to- this , demand i s alto gether inadt'nissible : no computation which could be made with any degree of exaaness,.could raise the amount of the loss'of those Hanoverians to the British service, beyond the number of one thousand, in place of what was befiire offered as an e,quivalent. Mr.,,Mackenze is authorised to consent that three thOusand French prisoners, intst......q of 2000 formerly stipulated, be set at liberty, in consideration of the Hannverians comprehended -in the capitulation of Count Walt — rid - den. who either now are, or who may have hitherto beep in the Btitish service ; that num ber of 3000 being independent of the total amount 011905 men, immediately to be liberated in, regard to the garrison of St. Domingo, as bath been agreed updu in the communication made by, the Commis saries of the Transport Office to M. Reviere, of the 19th of Jan. last. Mr. 4Nlackt:itzie Bath the honour of presenting now tO M. Durnoustier, the 'minute .of 3 proji:ct, which does not differ from that before offered by the British Government, lintfin the alterations: necessary to be made with regard to those. two points, and at the same time Ito inforin 4tint no other alteration, or the giving up of any thing, can on any account be admit tort. By presenting his final proposal to ,the French Government, and in offering „t o it the bounds of a series of concessions to whi c h the British ,Govern merit has been carried, from sentiments of hu manity and conciliation, Mr. Mackenzie is charged to impress on M. Dumoustier the conviction of the number, .the extent, and the value of these concessions, and to recal to his attention how every new step of this negociation bath been accnuipanied, with a new proof the liberali ty and candour on the part of the British Govern ment. The points in dispute relative to the capitulation of .St. Porningo; atid - . the exchange ,of the cii it subjects of Great Britain for French naval and mi.. ; litary prisoners of war, and, to an equivalent for' the Hanoveriaus, to an exchange-of French pri soners in England. fur those of other countries in the hands of France, and to. the immediate libera.. tion of French prisoners for spanish,, and to the ctianee of a - surplus which might remain williout any balance, have .been successively conceded by Great Britain,. though conformably to precedents, and aiso agreeably to received usage, she might, in turn, insist on some reciprocal conditions. on the pan of he French Government. F.,. Mr. Mackenzie must, in . conclysion,. observe, ,that in virtue of the above_-rnetniimed concessions; the Drench .Government, - in acceding. to the li beral propositions now offend, for the last time,• by the British Government, will ,obtain the setting RD ki kJ S, of No. 4.: Martictr-court, Low -meet Pcbl wiz, No., i 1. , Sond, :where didvertisetnttils, Orders I at 1111,'.4-ty 61 almost li%o Illuosand men, ittAepetitt 7 emly of the final • lit/..a.Ort- -of 4: ? ,u00 other Yrenchtnea, whu are.nuw . , ia power of g rea t Britain. t• Mr. Mackenzie • has the honour of ret)ewing 40 M. Dumoustier, the. assurances of his highconsi &ration. (Signed) C. A. MACKENZIE. Mot!Aix, Sept. 22,. 'No. XIII. is the, projea of .a convention for an pxc;iange ofi prisoners presented by Mr. Macken 21e, and which appeared in our. Paper of the 27th No. XI V. Note of M. Damoustier to Mr. Mac kenzie, 0,1. 7, • The undersigned Commissary for the exchange of prisoners of war has transmitted to his Govern ment the Note of Mr. .Mackeozre, of the 9 / 2 .d of September, awl the project of Convention annexed thereto. He is directed, in answer to this Commu nication,. to declare that thisarrangetnent will meet with no opposi , ion on the part of the French merit, provided the British Govertmient CollSrDli modify the:first, k-cond, and fourth paragraphs of the fourth Article of the project, as Stitill be here mentioned below. - In the first paragraph, it is ,wished that the fol lowing,alteintion s;ityikt- be made Ail British prisoners, of al.l raiil:s and de, i ;iee n detained in France or Italy. or in the depenuencir's of France and Italy, shall be set at literiy; 'and their ex-'_ change shall immediately comtnena: atter the rati fication of this Convention, by sending them to Deal -or Portstnguili, or any other port in the Channel that.shall be agreed on, or by assigning over to the hands of- the British Commissary, who :shall be nornialed to receive them, a thousand Engkh prisoners ; . and -two thousand of the tidies of England, for three thousand French prisoner's, or of the allies of Prance, who shall be set at li berty by time British Goteratuent,, as stated its the • said paragraph." In the second paragraph we propose, that all tote French prisoners of all ratAS and degrees noot,ide: tained in Great Britain, or in the Briti,sin..ossessions, shall be: set. at liberty ; their exchange shall take place after the signature of this con 7 Vention, and shall- he carried into eifect . by slicers sive!), sending to Morlaix, or to any other French port in the Channel that may be agreed on, or by assigning over into the hands of the French Coin misaries appointed to receive them,,,,,:3000 _French 'men flat' 1000 Ei , glish, and 2000 of the allies of England, in proportiOn as the French Government shall release them. In thelburth paragraph it is wishel that the num ber of eight thousand Hanoverians to be exchanged for eight thous'and,.French, be altered to th at of th ree thousand, as stated - 01- the pr4ject, which will occa sion a-total exchange of seventeen thousand Hano cdans who have capitulated for less than hall of this number: Undersigned,. on condition that these Alt era-- iions be achnititd, ankho4ised to sign the British prOjeCi. 'The alterations are founded on a principle from which France cannot ckpart, that of consenting to the liberation of the grea; mass of English pri soners, in proportion to the utis of iqeileh prisoners so liberated. • This principle is that which Las been ad - - milted, and parßeitkirly in 1780.,. to gain the object, the excess- of Freud) pii,oners was nict by a ransom in money. _ _ England being uttahla to tetite acreding to an ex change of prisoners, including the ELinuveli,: ;) ,, Por tuguese, and Spaniards, crinkles the principle ; and in that state of the question, she cannot deny the justice ut an exchange, ILIAD tut man, and rank tot rank, This mode of proceeding will establish very near .y .a general and imMediate exchange of ail the French' and all the EnghOt prisoners. 1 lae; ,Spa niards that may afterward.; I - lA/rain in France, and - the 41,Ilies of the French that mey be. in England, may be included, under the ath and. following article. Mr. Mackenzie will observe, from the simplicity of this answer, that. it has.not been a subject of cussiouat Paris; it is conformable toad that the On ' detsigned has hitherto said in the discussions that have taken place, that, if England only wishes a par. : tial exchange/ the tiegeciationmay he considered r4s retrograde and broken oti; ben it shew ishes in good earnest a general exchange, it is impossible to cull cerv,e any reason to prevent her adopting the only means of removing all doubts. , The Undersigned can only here repeat : that the French Government will never consent to give up the English prisoners that are id. their power for a part only of French that are in possession of Eng land,' and to leave the other, part withoUt guarantee in the hands of the British Govetoment. No. XV. Note from Mr. Mackenzie. Morlaix, Oct. i 6, tBto. SlR,—The determination of the French Govern ment, thus repeated, to adhere to the rejection of the first proposition of the Brtrish• Government, pre vents the accomplishment of the general libaation - of all the prisoners of war, and compels me, in compliance with my instructions, dernamt that you,wili have the goodness to provide fur the the necessary passports lot - my immediate reitu trio Eng land- • I have the honbunio be, &a. (Signed) N ZLE.• No. XVl.—Note of M, Dumaiztier. Morlaix, Oat. 0, ato. SIR --I hereby answer your letter of the• Bah inst. in which you say that we'add the triexpected ob. stacle of loading the 13,-ilish Governo , ent with the arrangement of the expence and difficlitties attend ing the conveyance. of the Spanish prisoners, &c. This assettion is not exaelly true, and I ant direct; ed again to repeat to you, what I have always hitherto had the honour. of stating, that . any question res..e6ting money will never prove an \oh. stack to•the French Goveruatept, and . that 'it mil never be behind on - any subject of 1I nature.— b} WILLI,A M RMIGIR SC I VI'S, .Soutt, Moitoi 'or the Poer, 'Low to ; r t2e k. 7 ditar• (poit-psiia), • • The 13(ittli Government may tletertdine leases; 'to all ~ps wishes France will g i ve h e r AB PStance; provided that, in consequence of the win' i:iple.adriritted.in 1.700, the exchange be . ,,inaceeo masse, .any that all the French shall return to lid"' own country, at, the same time that the EttgliSh shall 1 - turn to theirs. This condition is, and troth the first "day o f • negoCiation must h ave b ee n,- tl sine qua 'non." - F,verjr• .other considerati o n cap only be regarded as matter. of _conciliation. l i i, is the fourth time, .Sir, t h at I h ave t h e honour of repeating to you. thl ctetertuination of my G9v.er ll. mun L. (Signed) DiiilotnTLEß. No. XVII. Note of M. Domoustier. ariallC, Oct. 20• SlR—The letter .which I h a d. the M honour of writ! ing you on the Ifith inst. must have, fully conv . ipced. you, of the desire with which my Government h 35 been uniforwly animated, of removing, by ail thj sacrifices in its power, the difficulties started by Erg laud .against the carrying iwo effect a general Cha:lge, which must necessarily liberate, at ihe satti time s on both sides, the great bulk of the prisOtieo pt -w4r. You w ‘ i'l without doubt x .do tie the justice, Sir, that on my past .I have‘alway seCondt:d, as touch 85 :was•in my power„the conciliatory dispoqtion of my Goveriantut. I again give pat another .proof of it in consenting to divide the suejtion with you re speEting the Hanorertans, and in duly asking 6000 Yrench instead of. 8000, in exchange of (7,000, :fianoverians, comprised in th9capitulation of 'Field Mmshal Count Walnaoden. I itas;e the h o nour to be, Stc.. Du mousTart. No. XVIII. Sin—l have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and ant ILlppy to observe there is a conciliatory dispo;ithin on the part of the French Government ; but I feel; a:t the same time, a pAinfui sensation in seeing that. ;you propO•ie adiminution of the . n um b er (so ofte9 , 'declared as inadalissribl e r of the French prisoners,,. demanded in exchange for the Hanoverians of the army of Count WJinfoden : ' I have had- the honour of repeating very s fre" quently My orders; which in this respe6t were posi.. : five, and I have now to inform you for the thirdY time, that the Britiih Goverument adheres to the, just and equitable plan of convention finally.. modi— fied for the immediate exc h ange o f all prisoners:o ( war, and that in case it should not be accepted, - 4 am ordered to return immediately to England. (Signed) MAC&IINZIS. • Thete is a very extraordinary' man now living Constantinople,:- - who is generally knOWn• under the' name of Soliman, the eater of sublimate." 1 IS [o's years of age, an,dhas seen the following Itle;.. cession' of Sultans :—.Achmet 111. Osmfm, Mood, Mustapha 111. Abdul Hamed, Seli-no and the present Sovereign. This man, when ynong,-: accustomed himself, as the Turks db, to swallow opium ; but h av A l g ta k en b y degrees a large pan- . tityikithout producing the desired efieely he adopted the use of sublimate, and for upward:-of - 30 years,'. has taken a drachm, or do grains a day. He.would'• sometimes' go to the gop-of a Turkish call for a drachm of sublimate, whic' he mixed is a glass of water, and drank it up immediately.-"*. The first time the apothecary wa s very tut3cll,plarind eJ, fear'he should he charged with poisoning. the Turk ; but he was struck with am! - 2!ettient wh,n saUi the same man again, on the next day, vAid called for another'dose. Lard Elgin, Mr. Smith; and several g.aulemen now in England have met this exthoroinary man; and have heard .him taT; that the sensation he experienced afte7 having diavg that extremely active poison, was the most delicious he ever enjoyed. Such is the force of habit ! It i 4 generally 'thought, that since the days of Mithri dates, no one had ever made co.istant use .or such substance. Galvanists may talk of the power of their electriCal fluid; but no system of animal rnao ' net ism can eq ual theattraction of the present State Lottery Schetne, which for Choice of Numbers, Increase of Capitals , and new Arrangement of Drawing, hai Beal styled the Touch tone of Wealth ; the whole of w hich, amounting to Two Hundred Thousand Pound' , will" be drawn in One Day, the 15th of next Fe bruary. MAR R lED: On Sunday last, at St. fames's, Westminster, .Mr. Leeds, of Lambeth, to Miss Currie,. of the termer Parish. On the 13rli inst. at St. Mary's, Newington. Thornal" Dowman, Esq. of Bread-street, to Ketuzah, second daugly ter of Joseph Devey, Esq. of Walwortis. On Wednesday last, at Northam, 'Francis Stanfel!, U 5(1 .• Captain in the Royal N avy , to Elizabeth, second daughl e i of Robert, i3arton, Esq. of Btirrough-House, in Devonshit e r Captain ,t His Majesty's ship York. Or Thursday, at Hatfieid Church, by the Rev. Herd Pepys, the Rev. J. R. Th ac k eray, Reclor of Dowl-111-1 Market, and Vicar of St. Magdalen, Noriolk, and Chao7 lt il to the Duchess D owager of Newcastle, to Mary Ann's!, . (laughter of the late William Franks, Esq.. of Beech hull, il y the County of Herts. Yesterday morning, Edwin Rowlatt, of Ra..vrier-flous e r Roinford, Essex, Esq. to Hannah, second datOilcr of A ander Gordon. Esq. of Charter-house.squirc. Lately, ‘Villiain. Blanket, Esq, of iiithe cuo o f of Armagh, and Major o f the Armagh I‘.:, , ,;:nent, to At ll ''': daughter or the late Sir Andrew Ferguson, bare. of Lunihnt derry. DIED. 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